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The professional astronomer or astrophysicist is a pretty recent phenomenon. In the past, astronomy was often performed by nobility and extremely enthusiastic amateurs. Take William Herschel: by trade a classically trained musician, but as an amateur astronomer he discovered Uranus and was the first to observe binary star systems, among other things. Although it seems like the scientific exploration of our universe is now in the hands of full-time career astro-professionals, a ton of really valuable science is still done by people with proper day jobs. Today I want to talk about some of the stunning contributions still being made by citizen scientists, and the contributions YOU can make.

Links to citizen science programs: JunoCam: www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam AAVSO: www.aavso.org Zooniverse: www.zooniverse.org Galaxy Zoo www.galaxyzoo.org Backyard Worlds: backyardworlds.org Seti@Home: setiathome.berkeley.edu Einstein@Home einsteinathome.org MilkyWay@Home milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway

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